Guide means for cutting hair



United States Patent O GUIDE MEANS FOR CUTTING HAIR Ann De Sants,Warren, Ohio Application July 17, 1953, Serial No. 368,660

1 Claim. (Cl. 13245) My invention relates to guide means for cuttinghair, m re particularly to means for shaping ladies hair to selectedcontours, and the principal object of my invention is to provide new andimproved guide means of such character.

It will be appreciated that hair styles, particularly ladies hairstyles, require various hair shaping and contouring, and that the ladiesdesire to change their hair style from time-to-time. However, a changein hair style quite frequently requires a change in hair contour inorder to make the hair style eifective and women have either avoided achange in hair style or have changed to a hair style with ineffectiveresults because of the expense involved in having the hair shaped by aprofessional hair cutter.

Further, with the increasing use of home permanent sets, women havelargely visited the beauty parlors only to have their hair cut and againbecause of the expense involved, such visits have been infrequent withthe result that the particular individuals hair style became ragged inappearance between visits to the beauty shop.

My invention provides hair cutting guide means which may be used by anyinexperienced person to cut hair to correspond to any desired haircontour and accordingly the hair may be cut at home at any time with theresult that the hair style is maintained in proper condition andtherefore the following home permanent will produce the most effectiveresults.

In addition, a woman may change hair styles as frequently as she pleasessince the hair may be cut at home and the expense of the beauty parloris avoided. Further and other advantages will be apparent from thefollowing description and the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing accompanying this specification and forming a part ofthis application there is shown, for purposes of illustration, anembodiment which my invention may assume, and in such drawing:

Figure l is a view of my invention as applied to the head of a personwhose hair is to be cut, the view showing the head of the person fromone side,

Figure 2 is a view of my invention showing its disposition with respectto the back of the head, and

Figures 3 and 4 are plan views of opposite sides of the hair cuttingguide.

In the embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, the hair cuttingguide comprises a template which is preferably flat and thin incross-section and may be formed of any suitable material which has acertain degree of stifiness, such as cardboard, rubber, plastic or thelike.

The template may be of any desired shape in plan view and at present itis preferred to provide a template generally of heart shape, as shown inFigures 3 and 4. The upper portion of the template, as viewed in Figures3 and 4, is recessed, as shown at 11, to fit about the head of the userat the base of the skull, as suggested in Figure 1.

The recess 11 may be of a Width so that the template may be moved towardposition at the base of the skull and slightly fiexed to engage themargin defining the recess with the skull and thus hold the template inplace. However, because of the various sizes and shapes of heads, it ispreferable, in order for one template to accommodate various heads, toform the recess to comfortably fit the largest head and to provide bandmeans 12 which preferably encircles the forehead portion of the wearerand permits the template to hang downwardly from the base of the skull,as seen in Figure l. The band means may take any suitable form and asexamples it may be a flexible band having opposite ends secured to thetemplate, or it may be a two-part strap adapted to be held in place bymeans of a buckle.

In any event, the template 10 is held in position to extend downwardlyfrom the lower part of the skull so that the hair of the person may becombed to lie there over, as shown in Figures 1 and 2. The template ispreferably positioned so that it is generally disposed centrally withrespect to the rear portion of the head, as shown iu Figure 2.

Formed on one or both sides of the template are guide means which defineone or more hair contours. Such guide means may be in the form of ridgesformed integrally with the template or separately attached thereto, butfor reasons of economy, I prefer to form the guide means as a series oflines inscribed or otherwise suitably formed on the template side.

Figure 3 shows a series of guide lines 14 which are generally centrallylocated with respect to the longitudinal axis on one side of thetemplate 10 and said guide lines extend from the top toward the bottomof the template. The various guide lines represent progressively longercontours of a particular hair style. If desired, the opposite surface ofthe template 10 may be formed with a plurality of guide lines, such asshown by the lines 15 in Figure 4, to define progressively longercontours of a different type of hair style. Thus, either side of thetemplate may be used to support the hair to be cut, depending upon thehair style desired.

In operation, a user may secure the template to the position shown inFigures 1 and 2, and the hair may be combed to lie over and along thetemplate in generally centrally distributed manner. A hair cuttingdevice, such as scissors, may then be used to cut the ends of the hairso that the hair is trimmed to conform to a selected contour line. Itwill be appreciated that although the user may comb and trim his or herown hair by use of a mirror, it is preferable that a person other thanthe user perform the combing and cutting operations for the sake ofaccuracy.

In view of the foregoing it will be apparent to those skilled in the artthat I have accomplished at least the principal object of my inventionand it will also be apparent to those skilled in the art that theembodiment herein described may be variously changed and modified,without departing from the spirit of the invention, and that theinvention is capable of uses and has advantages not herein specficallydescribed, hence it will be appreciated that the herein disclosedembodiment is illustrative only, and that my invention is not limitedthereto.

I claim:

A hair cutting guide particularly adapted for use in cutting and shapingwomen's hair, comprising a template in the form of a relatively flatplate member, a band having opposite ends connected to said template andhaving an intermediate portion adapted to engage the forehead portion ofthe head of the person whose hair is to be cut to support said templatein hanging relation at the lower back portion of the head, said templatehav Patented Oct. 8, 1957 ing an arcuatemrgnal recess topass therearpart-ofhair and upon Which the hair maybe e0m hedhaekward thereover, andsaid template. having guidemeang defining hair contour for guidingcutting action of'a=hair cutting device to shape the hair to the contourdefinedby said guide means.

References Cted in the.file of this .patent.

UNITED STATES PATENTS Richmond Oct. 6, 1953

